Posted On: Wednesday - April 16th 2025 6:52PM MST
In Topics: Feminism Pundits
Now THERE's a concise, honest, and (somewhat?) entertaining headline!
In our over 8 years of blogging, Peak Stupidity has discussed the writings of, and the opinions of, pundit Steve Sailer far more than of any other pundit. It got to the point early on where we felt obligated to explain to readers that No, we don't worship Steve Sailer. We were, errrr, borrowing, that's the ticket, a lot of material around that time. To excuse that behavior at the time, I will note that reading the NY Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic as Mr. Sailer does still, to point out the stupidity therein would feel creepy for me. I've made other people feel creepy - no problem, it's a thing now - but being a NY Times reader, no, just too creepy... I couldn't live with myself. So... we got a lot of material from him.
It's been great reading Steve Sailer's writing over the years on The Unz Review. (Ron Unz keeps all the archives there, and he's kindly created threads at slightly variable intervals for us former commenters to keep arguing.) Mr. Sailer had definitely moved on, as we noted 9 months back he was in the process of doing. I've given my reasons (time spent and curmudgeonry regarding the format) for not joining up on the SteveSailer.net substack site. However, I read the posts that interest me, especially when there is no paywall.
Why? I've had a few more differences with this pundit than I used to, agreeing with him 90-95% of the time rather than 99%, as I used to. Most importantly I've considered whether this time in American history is no longer the time for a peacetime consigliere?
OK, again, Why? Because he's really a great writer. His writing is entertaining while at the same time being as full of truth as Mr. Sailer allows himself in this time in his life. By that I mean he still writes truthfully about issues that most pundits who worry more about their status will avoid. IMO, Mr. Sailer has trying to fit in a little more to get more young readers to understand these truths without turning them off.
That graphic above is at the top of this recent SteveSailer.net post. This is his thing, seeing and writing entertainingly but also informatively (often with statistics) to show the hypocrisy and stupidity of one of his many well-noticed social goings-on in America. (His book Noticing has a great assortment of these.) To start off, this "wait until paragraph 17 for the actual facts" description of the NY Times is one of his many themes:
Here’s a classic upside down New York Times article that puts the interesting facts way down toward the bottom with practically indecipherable terseness about the cause of the catastrophe after dozens of paragraphs of human interest trivia about the garbagemen’s strike in Birmingham, UK:Garbage Men are called Bin Men in England.
Why is there a garbage strike in Birmingham?(OK, paragraph 24 this time.) Most of the rest of the post is excerpts from the BBC and then the actual story out of some tweeter. Mr. Sailer again:
The answer is actually quite interesting — greedy feminist dogma run amok in Labour-run Britain — but NYT subscribers don’t want to hear that. It gives them Bad Feelz.
So, the most glancing reference to the cause of this disgusting situation is left unmentioned until this masterfully boring 24th paragraph:
You see, bin men, who are mostly men, were paid more by the city than people who held more genteel jobs, which are filled mostly by women, that didn’t involve lifting stinking heavy stuff. That’s supply and demand.The snark is excellent. He's like that a lot.
But in a breakthrough in feminist theory, a judge determined that women in nice jobs should get paid as much as men doing nasty jobs, because women are Good and men are Bad. Or something.
So, Feminism has backfired in Birmingham, England, as (per Lara Brown's tweet-string): Rubbish is piled high, ... Yeah, I mean, the NY Times can be over an inch thick on Sundays, so you get a few hundred copies and ... yeah... I agree it IS piled high. Now, see, Steve Sailer could have done a better job with that joke, is what I'm saying.
This is just one post out of many I enjoy. Unfortunately, a look at the recent posts on Mr Sailer's site isn't a good sample. Golf? Sorry, knock yourself out writing, but it's not for me. Basketball is not either, but I realize there is a bigger point that he's making in these ones on his classic topic, Human Bio-Diversity*. Then, there are a couple of posts in retort to on-again/off-again Sailer nemesis Mathew Yglesias. They aren't so entertaining, because I can tell Mr. Sailer has really gotten pissed at this guy, who is throwing Mr. Sailer under the bus, best some cuck pundit can heave him, in order to virtue-signal rather than tell the simple truth. This is from a guy who borrows Mr. Sailer's material and takes it only as far as is is socially acceptable.
As a very honest guy**, Steve Sailer detests people, whether it's Matt Yglesias or Lyin' Press "journalists" who purposely miss the real story. OTOH, as we wrote recently, SO WHAT, if you're right!
Keep on truckin' Steve! I hope you gather 100's of thousands of reader, no, millions, on your substack site, and get 10% of them to subscribe.
* Believe it or not, I'd read his old site for about a year before I figured out what "HBD" meant, as many times as it was written back then.
** About the only time I remember Steve Sailer not being quite honest with his commenters is during that Kung Flu Panic time. Though I didn't agree with his short-lived but serious pro-Panic stance, that wasn't dishonesty. That's not it. What someone brought up yesterday is that bit about "You don't want to take the jab because you're scared of needles." Yes, I read that from him a few times. IMO, he was pissed off that he had unruly commenters that could be seen as "conspiracy theorists" and even worse, low brow. He had to know we weren't avoiding the jab due to the ouchies from the needles.
Comments:
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 17th 2025 1:39PM MST
PS: Evenin', gentlemen...
Trump’s Vaccine Can’t Be Trusted
If a vaccine comes out before the election, there are very good reasons not to take it.
https://archive.ph/U5wsI
Harris says she wouldn’t trust Trump on any vaccine released before election
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/05/kamala-harris-trump-coronavirus-vaccine-409320
In an analysis adjusted for age, sex, clinical nursing job, and employment location, the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated. A calculated vaccine effectiveness of −26.9%
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.25321421v3
The evidence is overwhelming that vaccines are harmful, dangerous, often spread disease and can be deadly. And yet, for reasons I do not fully understand, vaxx mythology is still believed by many. Pretty crazy.
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Trump’s Vaccine Can’t Be Trusted
If a vaccine comes out before the election, there are very good reasons not to take it.
https://archive.ph/U5wsI
Harris says she wouldn’t trust Trump on any vaccine released before election
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/05/kamala-harris-trump-coronavirus-vaccine-409320
In an analysis adjusted for age, sex, clinical nursing job, and employment location, the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated. A calculated vaccine effectiveness of −26.9%
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.25321421v3
The evidence is overwhelming that vaccines are harmful, dangerous, often spread disease and can be deadly. And yet, for reasons I do not fully understand, vaxx mythology is still believed by many. Pretty crazy.
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Moderator
Thursday - April 17th 2025 12:39PM MST
PS: "For someone who makes his living questioning narratives, he bought into the vaxx mythology to the hilt." Very true. Gell-Mann Amnesia turned up to 11.
Let me throw this out there too. Steve Sailer has been proud of something that I too think is maybe his biggest scooop, his noticing that Pfizer purposely postponed the announcement of the vax having "passed" its trials past the '20 election to hurt Trump. If he understands that Pfizer did this thing that may have (in his and other's minds) saved THOUSANDS of people from the dreaded Flu Manchu, just for political purposes, how could he not figure that Pfizer and Big Pharma might do other nefarious things for political and financial reasons, and screw the people?
Let me throw this out there too. Steve Sailer has been proud of something that I too think is maybe his biggest scooop, his noticing that Pfizer purposely postponed the announcement of the vax having "passed" its trials past the '20 election to hurt Trump. If he understands that Pfizer did this thing that may have (in his and other's minds) saved THOUSANDS of people from the dreaded Flu Manchu, just for political purposes, how could he not figure that Pfizer and Big Pharma might do other nefarious things for political and financial reasons, and screw the people?
The Alarmist
Thursday - April 17th 2025 12:20PM MST
PS
Pro-panic? Sailer lifted his skirt and ran to hide in the cellar.
For someone who makes his living questioning narratives, he bought into the vaxx mythology to the hilt.
It would probably blow his mind to read the research that shows that pretty much every vaxx kills more people than the underlying illness they are supposed to prevent but often don’t.
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Pro-panic? Sailer lifted his skirt and ran to hide in the cellar.
For someone who makes his living questioning narratives, he bought into the vaxx mythology to the hilt.
It would probably blow his mind to read the research that shows that pretty much every vaxx kills more people than the underlying illness they are supposed to prevent but often don’t.
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Will check out the links later on tonight.